{"id":809012,"date":"2026-07-18T00:52:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T00:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/809012\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T00:52:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T00:52:11","slug":"toronto-man-charged-with-firearm-offences-after-chase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/809012\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto man charged with firearm offences after chase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A man has been arrested and charged with numerous firearm offences, while a second suspect is wanted by police in connection with the investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">On Wednesday, police said officers were conducting an investigation in North York near the intersection of Driftwood Avenue and Finch Avenue West.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tps.ca\/media-centre\/news-releases\/66442\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tps.ca\/media-centre\/news-releases\/66442\/\">According to police<\/a>, during the investigation, officers saw one of the suspects walking with another male. Police said the pair spotted officers in a marked police vehicle and began running.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Officers pursued the suspects on foot, and police allege one of the men threw a firearm during the chase, police said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">One suspect was arrested, while a second suspect remains wanted. Two officers suffered non-life-threatening injuries as a result.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Shevontae Stewart-Wilson, 21, of Toronto was charged with 10 firearm related offences, including unauthorized possession of a firearm; possession of a loaded prohibited or restricted firearm; carrying a concealed weapon; and two counts of possession of a firearm or ammunition contrary to a prohibition order.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The charges have not been proven in court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police did not provide a description of the second suspect, anyone with information is being asked to contact police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been arrested and charged with numerous firearm offences, while a second suspect is wanted by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":809013,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[712,49,48,3302],"class_list":["post-809012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=809012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/809013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=809012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=809012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=809012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}